Minor point but I didn’t mention one other thing I did. At the top left under the dash is a rectangular panel that drops down. That panel has guage relief. I decided I will be better served to use decals for both the guage face and the bezels. It might have been nice to keep the relief and just add the faces, but the decals I have include the bezels. I’d have to trim them or try and make them settle over the relief, which can often not be an easy thing to do. Add to the fact that I am printing my own decals, they are not the best, and not as robust as commercialy produced decals. I suppose, I could have digitally altered them before printing but with all things considered, just not worth the effort. Long story short … I sanded the relief off.
I could not get in there with a sanding stick and using a grinder would be too much for the job. So, I cut the panel off, sanded the piece, then reattached.
I suppose I can mention that I used Evergreen flat stock for the plugs. I happened to have a width very close to the hole size. It was a matter of chopping the length. With the use of Tamiya cement, I was able to coax the pieces into the holes to where they are mostly flush. A few areas were not designed the same way, so not so for those. But for the most part, many are flush and will require minor sanding and filling.
Looks great Bakster! I love all the extra detail you’re adding in there!
And you’re right about the curtains, Mrs. Robinson knows the extra weight is worth not having to worry about radiation poisoning. Having your hair fall out and puking your internal organs out is such a mess to clean up…
Speaking of scream, there is a part 2, if you are so inclined. Maybe a part 3 too. Lol. Part 2 has a color shot of the chariot interior. I could also see the gray used on the lower exteriors. That kind of made it worth watching. Hehe.
Thanks!!! Will check out the videos when I have a little more time.
Watched Michael Rennie as the space zookeeper episode tonight and the giant spider monster sat on the Chariot. Wonder how much work it would be to mock up a giant space spider…
judging from their other gags, probably not much. Some of what they did on the show was sincerely laughable. I love the colored skindiver suits with the bubble face shields. I think they used motorcycle helmet face shields of the time. I remember those things. And I think it was about then that I said, I have seen enough. Lol
i am impressed that you continue to watch. [Y] You sir, get the Bakster badge of commitment.
Would probably come down to how much effort a person was willing to invest in replicating tiny hairs largely. Or adopting a more smooth caraprace appearance.
One of the hairy spiders, enlarged, would be a lot of hairiness to build.
Might be interesting to ‘do’ a version of static grass in one of the longer fiber formats.
Although, if a person were “keeping to canon” perhaps a larger toy spider might be more apropos:
Cool Capt! The third toy spider is probably the right one here.
Although to be more accurate it looked like a bunch of furry pillows stuck together…
And made the same sound of a TiE fighter from Star Wars.
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I watched a few more episodes. Including the one where Robby from Forbidden Planet showed up as a ‘Robotoid’ or something like that. And the ‘Magic Mirror’ episode where Penny gets trapped in a weird alternate dimension inside an alien mirror. That one I thought was pretty cool.
Kudos with watching the show. It’s gets worse as the seasons progress. Brace yourself. [|-)]
My life wall has temporarily relented. So, I started working on this again. My work continues filling and smoothing the plugs I made. With that near done, it is time to start fabricating the curtain and curtain rods. Hopefully, I will get some bench time this week and I can start that.
Cool, looking forward to more work on the Chariot.
And yeah, the first season was goofy but they did seem to be trying to be somewhat serious. And now they’re moving in the goofy Dr. Smith, robot, and Will Robinson jokes that I’d long thought the show was.
The other night I watched the episode where aliens put the Robinsons on trial. And Smith tried to rat them out and ended up being found guilty of everything they were charged with. In the end the Robinsons get Smith out on an insanity charge. That did give me a good chuckle.
Hey Gam, your synopsis of the show is what I recall.
Too funny about Smith escaping through insanity. I suppose he was appalled at the thought of being deemed insane. (Indeed…) Or was he lilly-livered and all in with the idea?
It cracks me up Gam that you are watching the show. You are taking one for Team LIS Chariot build. [Y]
I upgraded to Chopper II. The old one with a wood base and a wobbly cutting arm finnaly broke on me. It is probably a good thing because getting a straight cut became next to impossible.
Anyway, the new one came today and just in time for my curtain frame chopping. This chopper seems nicely designed. It has a heavy metal base with a cutting arm that seems tight and solid. This was near twice the price of my first, but I think worth it.
Anyhow, like I said, it is the little things in life.
PS: Today, in my neck of the woods, we have the dubious honor of having the worst air quality of anywhere in the world. Probably, not something to hang my hat on. Canadian Wildfire smoke is traveling hundreds of miles to the US Midwest… You can literally see smoke in the air, like a fog.
And that is that. Hopefully, some build updates over our long holiday weekend.
Well, the “extended spring weather” y’all in the Midwest have had is due to come to an end soon, and it’s like to leap straight into July sorts of temperatures, whic hwill encourage folk to luck in their basements with the a/c on.
The “heat dome” currently baking Texas is meant to depart this weekend (only like 92°F for the 4th) to end our run of triple-digits. Mind, I’m leaving this afternoon for Austin so I can get to all three of my currently-building apartment projects for thier under-construction inspections. These are ±300 unit projects, so I may be babbling like Dr Smith by noon tomorrow . . .
